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Archduchess Maria Luisa Of Austria (1845–1917)
Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (full name: ''Maria Luisa Annunziata Anna Giovanna Giuseppa Antonietta Filomena Apollonia Tommasa'') (31 October 1845 – 27 August 1917) was a Princess of Tuscany, and later Princess of Isenburg and Büdingen. Biography Maria Luisa was born in Florence, the eighth child and fifth daughter of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany and his second wife, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies. Her paternal grandparents were Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Luisa of Naples and Sicily. Her maternal grandparents were King Francis I of the Two Sicilies and María Isabella of Spain, Infanta of Spain. She was baptized in Florence's Florence Baptistery, Battistero di San Giovanni as ''Maria Luisa Annunziata Anna Giovanna Giuseppa Antonietta Filomena Apollonia Tommasa'', in honor of her father's sister, Princess Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (1798-1857), Maria Luisa (1798-1857), affectionately called "th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl II, Prince Of Isenburg-Birstein
Karl II, Prince of Isenburg-Büdingen in Birstein (full name: ''Karl Viktor Amadeus Wolfgang Kasimir Adolf Bodo'') (29 July 1838 – 2 April 1899) was head of the German mediatisation, mediatised German house of Isenburg-Büdingen, Isenburg and Büdingen. Biography Karl was born in Birstein, Hesse, as the second child of Victor Alexander, Prince of Isenburg-Büdingen, son of Karl, last sovereign Prince of Isenburg, and his wife, Princess Maria of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg.''Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser'' XIII. "Isenburg/Ysenburg". C.A. Starke Verlag, 1987, pp. 237-239. (German). After the early death of his father in 1843, Karl was placed in the charge of his uncle, Wolfgang Ernst III, Prince of Isenburg-Birstein, who had him raised in his Protestant denomination, but he was exposed to the Catholic faith by his mother and in 1861, converted to Catholicism. On May 31, 1865, at the age of twenty-seven, he married Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria (184 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
